London to Southend bicycle ride report.
This year I rode the London to Southend charity ride in aid of the British Heart Foundation.
I raised a little over £300 for the charity and I had ‘fun’.
At a little before 6AM I arrived at the train station, not long after that, they allowed everyone in and we all crammed ourselves onto the ‘specially laid on’ train. I am not good at estimating numbers, there were perhaps a couple of hundred people with a bicycle each.
The train was due to leave at 06:20. At 06:19, they announced that the train was not going to leave as there was a signalling fault and perhaps we should take the City-2-City train from the other station. Much swearing happened.